Written by Last season was definitely divided into 2 parts for me; the awesome end and a horrific start. The early season will always be remembered for the terrible tragedy of friends lost to the mountain in the early part – Liz, JP, Andreas, American Dave, Brendan – events which deeply effected the hardest souls and filling me with deep sadness that these friends and inspirational people were now gone. Ontop of the sadness are soul searching questions of what are we doing, why did this happen, is it worth it the risks? Questions we never truly answer but one thing is for certain, there is risk in everyone’s life no matter what they do. So here’s some of the good memories from last season.
Sunset on the Midi
Skiing the West Face of Mont Blanc – photo by Guilhem Martin Saint Leon
Tom Grant on the west face of Mont Mallet
Sunrise on the Midi from Tacul taken en route to the West Face of Mont Blanc
Michelle enjoying coffee and cake in a Japanese coffee shop
Me skiing the east face of the Matterhorn. Photo by Mikko Heimonen
Tommaso Cardelli showing us how its done in the Vallencent Couloir, Cortina
Enrico and myself at the top of the east couloir of Col Tour Noir Superior
Me in Croullante Couloir. Photo by Enrico Mosetti
Andy Houseman on the west couloir of Mont Mallet
Enrico Mosetti on the Brenva Spur
Michelle Blaydon in front of ‘that wall’ of great lines
Climbing the Charlet Route on a traverse of Mont Dolent with Andy Nelson
Our latest approch vehicle. With Minna Riihimaki and Tommaso Cardelli deep underground Switzerland
Tom Grant on the east face of Mont Blanc approaching Col Moore
Andy Nelson is happy arriving at the ridge on the Charlet-Galet traverse of Dolent
Tom Grant at dawn on Col de la Fourche 
Plan A on the Diable failed so lets go ski the Grand Gervasutti
Andy Houseman on the shoulder of Mont Mallet
Me in the right branch of the Argentiere’s Y Couloir. Photo by Kirsti Lehtimaki
Psyched!
Hut nights at the Couvercle. Bruno Compagnet enjoying some rouge!
Happy to be up high on days like these
Solar eclipse of the moon above the Flammes et Pierre ridge
Michelle Blaydon and Tom Grant deep in conversation
In the beautiful Mont Mallet cirque
Enrico Mosetti launching into the fantastic Passage d’Argentiere
Tom Grant and myself bivying in style with Leffe 
Me on Breche Tacul in front of the Jorasses
Enrico in an all time Capucin 
Me, Enrico and Michelle having some well earned beers at Elevation
Me skiing south face of Dent de Geant. Photo by Luca Pandolfi
Me on the Swiss side. Photo by Enrico Mosetti
Michelle Blaydon in the Aiguille Rouge
A sunny sunday morning stroll along along to the Vallencent
Michelle Blaydon scrambling in the Aiguille Rouge
Mikko Heimonen on firm steep snow on Petit Mont Blanc
Michelle Blaydon in the Aiguille Rouge
Tom Grant on the Mont Mallet Glacier
Me in the Vallencent Couloir. Photo by Tommaso Cardelli
Andy Houseman climbing Breche Puiseux on route to Mont Mallet
Minna in the Bureloni Couloir, Dolomites
Me on Breche Tacul, Photo by Mika Mericanto
Michelle Blaydon in the Aiguille Rouge
Tom Grant on the approach to the Diable 
A content snow monkey enjoying the hot springs in Japan
Me in the Grassi Marone Strata on Petit Mont Blanc. Photo Mikko Heimonen
Tom Grant in Grand Gervasutti, a nice plan B to have
Weighing up the option of which beautiful ridge to ski in Japan
Bruno Compagnet, Grands Montets
Another bluebird powder day in Italy, captured well by Ben Tibbetts
Steamed dumplings, Japan
Via ferrata in Cortina. Photo Tommaso Cardelli
Michelle Blaydon in the sushi bar, Japan
Michelle Blaydon enjoying Japanese pow
Me riding flat out in Italy. Photo by Ben Tibbetts
Funtimes in Japan
Michelle booting on of the Chardonnet lines at Christmas
Michelle in the Trident Couloir
The master sushi maker at work, Japan
Me on the Chardonnet. Photo by Michelle Blaydon
Michelle falling in love with the snow monkeys in Japan
Michelle on the ridge 
Japanese whiskey
Great coffee
Great climbing on Pinnochio. Photo by Andy Houseman
Michelle in the Aiguille Rouge
Ross Hewitt Guiding 
